Maly Trostenets is a village near Minsk in Belarus, formerly the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II, the village became the location of a Nazi extermination site.
"Field of Burial" where the ashes of murdered and cremated prisoners were scattered
Memorial to the more than 10,000 Austrian Jewish victims of Maly Trostinets concentration camp, inaugurated in 2019.
Ruins of the building used for personal belongings of prisoners at the Maly Trostinets concentration camp
Memorial sign on the place of main massacres
The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest in the Byelorussian SSR, and the largest in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union. It housed close to 120,000 Jews, most of whom were murdered in The Holocaust.
Jews in the Minsk Ghetto, 1941
The monument to victims of Minsk ghetto at Pritytskogo street, Minsk, Belarus
The "Pit memorial" with obelisk on the left (obscured) and group sculpture on the staircase on the right.
Mikhail Gebelev, Head of Resistance